Ebrima,

Our thanks again to your sources. This issue of trying to doctor up charges
in order to eliminate the opposition against whom Jammeh does not stand a
chance should not be a surprise to Gambians. Was this not the entire motive
behind this whole affair in the first place? However, it just goes to show
you how simple minded yaya jammeh and his band are, a case of the blind
leading the blind. They actually believe that turturing and harassing
innocent people,  masterminding schemes to disrupt the order of thing as laid
down by our constitution, and hiring PR firms to cover up their tarnished
image is a solution to their hopeless plight.Here is a classic case of how
ignorant and simple-minded people see everyone else in the same light as
themselves, but time will tell.

Jabou Joh


In a message dated 9/2/00 9:00:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
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<< Yahya also enquired whether such a law could be made retroactive or
 >backdated so that it will exempt Ousainou Darbo and those UDP members
 >charged with the alleged murder of Alieu Njie from participating in the
 >next elections. Ebrima, you see, Yahya has made abundantly clear to the AG
 >that a way must be found, given the murder charge hanging on Ousainou
 >Darbo, to ban him (Darbo) from participating in the forthcoming elections.
 >Jammeh now knows that he cannot win any election in the Gambia and, seeing
 >Darbo as a threat, he is now finding a way to ban him just as he did with
 >Sheriff Dibba, Hassan Musa Camara and others during the last general
 >elections. Ebrima, anyway we are waiting to hear what Cheyassin Secka would
 >advice him with regard to this proposed new law that he, Jammeh, is
 >suggesting. But one thing is clear: if he tries to ban Darbo from
 >participating in the forthcoming elections because of a pending murder
 >charge, then civil unrest of an unimaginable proportion will be seen in the
 >country >>

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